The Neanderthal race had its day and disappeared from Europe. Perhaps it was greatly reduced by the rigors of the fourth glacial period. Perhaps its remaining numbers were decimated in wars with a superior people; for that superior people was at hand. Some 25,000 years ago, a new race—the Cro-Magnon people—invaded Europe. These people were from Asia. They belonged to a stock totally different from the Neanderthals from whom they wrested a continent. Tall in physique, with high, straight foreheads, and large, well formed brains, they were a hardy race of hunters and the most intelligent and progressive race the world then knew. Their superior industry in the working of flint everywhere superseded the Neanderthal. They had imagination, ideals, and knew the customs of civilized life. They were artists with a high sense of beauty and proportion. Their carvings on bone implements, their sculptures, and the realistic paintings on the walls of their caves represent an art whose delicate finish and superb proportion remained unrivalled in its field until the reign of the Greeks. They decorated their dead with strings of perforated shells, and with them buried flint weapons and offerings of food. Writing of these people with evident enthusiasm, Professor John M. Tyler, in “The New Stone Age in Northern Europe,” observes: “The Cro-Magnon people have excited the wonder and admiration of all anthropologists.” [Illustration: FIG. 28.—THE BALDHEADED CHIMPANZEE. The Chimpanzee is a native of West and Central Equatorial Africa. “There are various races or varieties of Chimpanzee, and all of them show a degree of black pigmentation. In one variety the skin becomes totally black; in another, pigmentation of the face and of other parts, is delayed until late in life; in others the face never becomes absolutely black.”—“Man, a History of the Human Body,” by Dr. Arthur Keith.] In the Cro-Magnons evolution had at last produced a race of real men—men with well moulded heads, with large, competent brains, with a straight facial angle, with well formed jaws and teeth and chin, with manly eyes looking out beneath an intellectual brow and lighting up a face whose whole contour was rugged but thoroughly human. Other races came upon the scene, and there was a mingling of races and a clashing of cultures; but the Cro-Magnons, though they declined in numbers, persisted, and became, as is believed, one of the lineal ancestral races of modern man.